Magazine-firearm.



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MAGAZINE FIREARM.

(Application led Jan. 30, 1901.)

(Ho Model.)

. reference being had vcitizen of the United. adelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented cery tain Improvements in Magazine-Firearms, of

UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

HALF TO LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS,

OF ASHBOURNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

vMAGAZINE-r-IREARIVI.

SPECIFICATION forming para of'nea'ers Patent No. 680,207, dated August e, 1901. Application filed January S0, 1901. Serial No. 45,855. (No model.)

To al?, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. SCOTT, a

States, residing in Philwhich the following is a specification.

The object of lvmy invention is to provide a simple, convenient, and effective means whereby a number of cartridges constituting the magazine charge for a modern rifie can be conveniently carried and inti-oduced rap# `idly and with accuracy into a magazine hav-4 ingaside openingsuch, for instance, as that of the United States magazine-ride, caliber.

.30 and others of thesame class. This object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, to the accompanying drawings, in which- VFigure 1 is a plan view of sufficient of a magazinerifle to illustrate the manner of loading the magazine with cartridges in a clip in accordance with my invention, the side gate being open vand the clip of cartridges adj usted into position. to permit the cartridges is extracted therefrom, 4o

locking rearwardly or toward the stock of the to be pushedfrom the clip into the magazine. Fig. 2 is a View, in transverse section, on the line a, a, Fig. 1,

gun. Fig. 3 is a similar view showingthe cartridges being pushed into the magazine; and Fig. 4 is a-view of part of the side gate for closing the magazine of the gun, this view .illustrating aspecial feature of my invention.

- In rifles of the United States magazine .-30" caliber type the magazine lis below the channel in which works the longitudinal. bolt whereby the cartridge is pushed into the breech end of the barrel and the empty shell such magazine opening'at the right-hand side of the action, at which point there is a swinging gate 2 for closingsaid open lend of. the magazine, this gate having a spring-follower 2' for feeding the cartridges across the platform formed by the bottom of the magazine, so as to bring them successively into-range of the longitudinally-reciprocating breech-bolt.

In an application for patent filed by me'on the' 10th day of December, 1900, Serial-No. 39,387, I have shown, described, and claimed `a cartridge-clip for use in connection with a partly in elevation and partly I magazine-rifle of the character specified, suoli clip consisting of a plate of sheet metal havguides for the heads of the cartridges, said clip containing a spring-plate 5 for bearing upon said heads and exerting such pressure thereupon as to prevent their accidental release from the clip. l

To insure the proper feeding of the cartridges into the magazine, it is necessary that the clip shall be held with comparative rigidityiii the direction of the length of the gun, and for this reason I formi in the fiange 10, with which the swinging gate 2 is provi-ded, a notch l1, into which the edgeof the cli-p can be entered and which serves not only to hold the clip at a proper angle in respect to the magazine, but also to prevent the bullet held in the neckof the cartridge from coming into contact with the platform or oor of the inaga'zine, as would be the case if the charged clip was not prevented bythe restraining in fliiing forwardly and downwardly.

Obviously if the bullet end of the cartridge should rest on the platform before the head part of the pressure required for stripping the cartridges from the clip would be sustained by the bullet end of the lowermost cartridge, and this would result inlocking the rim of the cartridge under the anges of the clip, and thus prevent the free delivery of the cartridges from the clip and into the magazine.

It will 4be noted that in the use of inyiinproved clip the cartridges are introduced into the magazine by `pressure and' not, as in oi'- Adinary practice, by their own gravity, for when the latter method is adopted there isdanger in the case of rim-cartridges of the rim of the next following cartridge. Hence when the leading cartridge when about to carry it forpressure is really exerted upon both the leading cartridge and the following cartridge,

not directly engaged by the bolt is still below the exit-aperture of the inagazineav Jain reing at eachedge L-shaped-flanges 4, forming` ence of the guide-notch in the gate from tilt` of the cartridge had passedout of the clip' edge of the bolt contacts withthe rim of the the leading cartridge overlapping the rim of 'i -ward and into the chamber of the gun the which its rim overlaps, and as the cartridge ICO salts, and underthe pressureapplied thc rims of one or both cartridgesv may be torn away, making subsequent extraction uncer-v tain, or the projectile of the cartridge which is below the exit-aperture of the magazine may be forced back upon the explosive charge of the cartridge, so as to compress the latter and. cause-excessive generation of pressure when lit is fired.

Besides forming the notch 1l in the flange of the swinging gate to constitute a guide and retainer for the outer edge of the clip I prefer also to form a notch or guide in the upper lip of the mouth of` the magazine, this notch receiving the upper edge of the clip, and thus providing for the rigid longitudinal retention of both edges.

Instead of providing the swinging gate with the guide-notch I may adopt other means. For instance, I may have a spring-arm 12, mounted upon the gate and having a guidenotch 1l formed in it, as shown in Fig. 4, for the reception of the edge of the clip, the spring-arm being pushed back into its recess when the swinging gate is closed. Y

The spring-arm has a beveled cam-surface 13 inthe rear of the notch, so that the operator may more readily guide the edge of the clip into the notch by sliding the clip up over said 4beveled cam-surface.

vWhen the swinging -gate has been opened, as shown in Fig. 1, and the clip with its charge of cartridges has been entered in the guidenotches, the cartrid ges can be instantly forced l from the clip into the magazine by the pressure of the thumb on the outermost cartridge of the row, as in Fig; 2, and as this pressure is continued the thumb swings down in front of the clip and the latter is gradually raised Iuntil when the last cartridge is passing into the magazine the clip will beA substantially vertical, as shown in Fig. 3, whereupon a rearward movement of the thumb ejects the vempty clip, while at the same time the raising movement of the hand closes the gate and brings the firearm into condition to deliver the magazinecharge. I

Having thus described my invention, I claimiand desire to secure by Letters 'Patent- 1. A magazinegun having a swinging gate for closing the magazine, said gate having a guide-notch and bearing such relation to the side of the magazine that it will receive the edge of a cartridgeclip introduced between the magazine and gate, and bearing upon the side of the magazine.

2. A magazine-gun having a swinging gate -for closing the magazine, said gate and the upper lip of the mouth of the magazine having notches for receiving the -edges of a car- 'tridgeclip when the lat-ter is adjusted to deliver its charge of cartridges into the maga,

zine.

3. Amagazine-gunhavingaswinging,'mag azne-closing gate, withspring-actuated bar or plate 'having a guide-notch for the recep- 'tion ofthe edge of a cartridge-clip when the latter is adjusted to deliver its cartridges int'o -the magazine.

4. A magazine-gun having a swinging, magazine-closing r gate, with guide-notch for the -reception of the edge of a cartridge-clip when the latter is adjusted to deliver its cartridges into the magazine, and a beveled cam in rearV of said notch for directing the edge of the clip into the same.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

ROBERT W. sco'rr.

Witnesses:

F. E. BECHTOLD, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

